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Blackburn Aircraft was founded by Robert Blackburn and Jessy Blackburn, who built his first aircraft in Leeds in 1908 with the company's Olympia Works at Roundhay opening in 1914. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Blackburn Aeroplane & Motor Company was created in 1914 [ 3 ] and established in a new factory at Brough , East Riding of Yorkshire in 1916. [ 4 ]
In the 1930s he lived in Natal, South Africa and in the towns of Bulawayo and Victoria Falls in what has since become Zimbabwe. [7] He was the founder of the Scarcroft golf club. In 1950 he retired, leaving Bowcliffe Hall and moving to Devon. On his death in Devon in 1955 the Blackburn company's production facilities became part of Hawker Siddeley.
Data from Blackburn Aircraft since 1909 [3] General characteristics. Crew: 1; Length: 23 ft 0 in (7.01 m) Wingspan: 24 ft 0 in (7.32 m) Height: 9 ft 6 in (2.90 m) Wing area: 170 sq ft (16 m 2) Gross weight: 800 lb (363 kg) Powerplant: 1 × Green C.4 4-cylinder water-cooled in-line piston engine, 35 hp (26 kW) Propellers: 2-bladed fixed-pitch ...
The Blackburn Mercury was an early British aircraft designed as a pilot trainer for the Blackburn Flying School, Filey, in 1911. It was an enlarged, two-seat version of the Second Monoplane that flew earlier that year. It was a mid-wing monoplane of conventional configuration that accommodated pilot and student in tandem, open cockpits.
His second machine, [1] the Second Monoplane was very different, and resembled Léon Levavasseur's Antoinette design which Blackburn had seen in France. The monoplane wing was rectangular with a constant chord , significant dihedral and square tips, and had a thin aerofoil section cambered on the underside, as was usual at the time.
Blackburn Aircraft Since 1909. London: Putnam. ISBN 0-370-00053-6. Jackson, A.J. Blackburn Aircraft Since 1909. London: Putnam Aeronautical Books, 1989. ISBN 0-85177-830-5; Jefford, Wing Commander C.G. (2001) [1988]. RAF Squadrons, a Comprehensive record of the Movement and Equipment of all RAF Squadrons and their Antecedents since 1912 (2nd ed ...
Data from Blackburn Aircraft since 1909 General characteristics Crew: 3 Length: 35 ft 6 in (10.82 m) Wingspan: 48 ft 6 in (14.78 m) Height: 12 ft 3 in (3.73 m) Wing area: 654 sq ft (60.8 m 2) Empty weight: 3,765 lb (1,708 kg) Gross weight: 6,370 lb (2,889 kg) Powerplant: 1 × Napier Lion IIB or V W-12 water-cooled piston engine, 450 hp (340 kW) Propellers: 2-bladed fixed-pitch propeller ...
The Blackburn Type D, sometimes known as the Single Seat Monoplane, was built by Robert Blackburn at Leeds in 1912. It is a single-engine mid-wing monoplane . Restored shortly after the Second World War , it remains part of the Shuttleworth Collection [ 1 ] and is the oldest British flying aeroplane.